> From: Terrell Larson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 2:17 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: license for openssl in UK and proof the NSA monitors all
> emails.
>
> Here's an asside we probably shouldn't laugh about:
>
> Last year I sent off a perfectly innocent email that had some
> names for certain explosives in it - and since I suspected the NSA
> would read the email I incorporated a PS addressed
> specifically to the folks in the NSA and suggested they check
> out one of
> my websites. Within 24 hours this was in the server logs:
>
> intruder.naswi.navy.mil - - [01/Sep/1998:12:35:58 -0600] "GET
> / HTTP/1.0" 200 2009
> intruder.naswi.navy.mil - - [01/Sep/1998:12:35:59 -0600] "GET
> /worldmap.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 11086
Sorry, perhaps I miss here something, but SO WHAT? You had a hit from the
military, and from this you draw a conclusion that there's worldwide
conspiracy involving NSA? Man, that's too many X-Files I'd say. OK, let's
see, here's some perfectly innocent site I have access to, and no owner of
it ever wrote a PS for NSA. Let's grep through it's logs and see whether it
will have any hits from 'mil' TLD.
OK, I've got 47 unique hosts (some of which are obviously proxies), I've got
army, navy, pentagon, I've got 1768 total hits for 3 months (and that's not
that large a site). What do you say? Should I expect a deportation? Will the
NSA guys be knocking on my door any soon? But, you see, both I and the site
are located in the '.il' TLD (that's Israel). I'd say the logical
explanation is that the military guys also browse the web (for fun that is).
Have many hits and good luck unveiling the NSA conspiracy!
BTW, the military guy must have found your site pretty dull, if there were
no more hits... ;-)
--
Dmitry Rubinstein
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